Yesterday, Classic Rock magazine reported on a recent chat with Axl Rose’s manager Beta Lebeis. She revealed that production on Guns N’ Roses’ long-anticipated sixth album, Chinese Democracy, was completed before Christmas.
“Everybody knows that,” said Lebeis, who has worked with Rose for 15 years.
Furthering speculation that the marketing of the album is a source of some conflict between Rose and Geffen Records, Lebeis said that Axl is “in negotiations.”
Chinese Democracy will be the first collection of original Guns N’ Roses material since the Use Your Illusion I and II releases in ’91. The band reportedly began writing the album in 1994, but progress was halted due to disagreements between Rose and Slash, who left the band in ’96.
In 2005, the New York Times reported that production costs on Chinese Democracy had reached $13 million, making it the most expensive recording never to be released.
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